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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1913
Page
4
The Basin Republican announces filing details as a second class matter since 1905 with Basin and Big Horn County affiliation. It lists subscription at $2 per year in advance and rate cards for display and local advertising, including per inch and per line charges.
Peter Radford of the Texas Farmers Union says Wells Fargo Express will mediate between farm sellers and buyers. Local housewives submit daily offers, which the express outfits relay to farmer shippers. The system aims to cut middlemen, lower consumer costs, and speed delivery with fresher produce, potentially expanding to other express firms and aiding three million Union members and Wyoming outreach.
The Basin community shows travel interest through a Custer and Dailey baseball tournament boosting unity and business. Also offers 80 and 80 acre deeded land tracts in the Big Horn Basin for sale, with fruit trees, water rights, and easy terms. Baptist Church notes Sunday school and midweek services. Rev Gordon W. Racer listed. local editor visited Worland.
A single alfalfa plant in a Rocky Ford experiment produced 923 aroma of clean seed from one plant despite a poor season. The field, sown in 1911 for seed, faced drought and low yields, yet this plant thrived with leafy stems and enormous seed output. Seed from this plant is used to plant plots in Rocky Ford and Fort Collins tests, highlighting selective breeding gains and soil moisture considerations. The report also notes irrigation, soil care, and ongoing selection improving alfalfa seed and forage quality.
Farmers of Mig Horn county seek true to grade alfalfa hay prices for baled hay delivered on board car at Basin and nearby towns. Only top quality, no mixed or misrepresented loads, will be bought and paid in full upon consumer acceptance, establishing a permanent market.
County and Prosecuting Attorney W I Collings and Under Sheriff F I Hue attended the Kane session last Friday for the state v Albert Gifford case. Gifford pleaded guilty to shooting a cow in J H Tilley’s field and was fined ten dollars plus costs by the justice.
Cody Club defeated Gebo in a high scoring Sunday game that drew the Basin’s largest crowd. Rae opened with a 2b error, and Cody surged with five runs in the fifth. Key plays included King on base via wild pitch, Russell and A King fanning, and Cassady catching three straight steal attempts. Final innings featured defensive miscues and steady Cody hitting led by Rae, Wallace, and Knouff as Gebo could not overcome Cody’s late rally.
In a disjointed innings sequence Williams scores on a error and hits, seven-run flurry across multiple players. King replaces Six on the mound, Evans, Holden, Trainor, Williams, and others contribute as assists and runs. Final plays end with Woolman, Cassady, and Six retired as the big game ends with a late rally and no clear winner.
Notice of foreclosure under a 1910 mortgage by Henry D Hendricks and Myrtle Hendricks to Ida C Denny seeks sale of Lots 14 and 15, Block 3 Collins Addition Basin Big Horn County Wyoming to satisfy $363.41 plus $100 attorney fee. Sale at Fraternity Hall Basin on September 3 1913 at 2 pm. Ida Denny is mortgagee. John P Arnott attorney. First pub July 8 1913. last pub August 29 1918.
Notice is given under Chapter 110 Wyoming statutes that Big Horn County School District No. 42 will receive bids for six negotiable coupon bonds. Five bonds at 500 dollars and one at 200 dollars, dated August 1, 1913, 6 percent interest, payable annually. Bonds due 25 years after issue. Proceeds to build a school house and furnish it. Bids due August 13, 1913 by 1 p.m. at the clerk’s office Germania Linllorn County. Sealed bids to J W Pepper.
Department of the Interior notice from the Buffalo Wyoming land office dated July 28 1913 announces Frank W Nicholson of Burlington Wyoming has filed a new notice of intention to make final five year proof to establish his homestead claim on section 21 and 28 township 62 north range 115 west fourth principal meridian before R H Abrena district court clerk Basin Wyoming on the Sunday of September 1913 witnesses listed include Thomas Riley Lewis Blakesley William Agee Winfield Collings and W F Beltitam, register.
160 acres with good ditch and water right, 50 acres alfalfa, 40 acres plowed land and timber, water certificate for 150 acres. Price 4600 dollars. Purchaser to assume a 1000 dollar mortgage. Four Jersey and four Holstein cows with livestock, good log house, stable, fenced. Inquire W S Collins Basin Wyoming. Judge Kirkpatrick traveled from Hyattville to Billings for circuits.
Default on a 1910 mortgage by James F Leighty and Lillian Leighty to Ida C Denny. Public auction at Fraternity Hall Basin Big Horn County on September 22, 1913, at 2 PM to cover 1789.00 due plus 100.00 attorney fees, description covers 160 acres SE quarter, SW quarter, and NE quarter of SW quarter in sections 34 35 township 53 92W with water rights. Last pub Sept 19 1913.
Notice is given that Letters of Administration were issued to the undersigned administrator of the estate of Robert Spence deceased on June 6 1913. All claims against the estate must be presented for allowance within six months from the date of the letters and any not presented within one year from that date shall be forever debarred. Dated July 18 1913 John F. Everett Administrator. For gale Buffalo pit threshing outfit 16 horsepower very little used for sale cheap to Anderson and Johnson
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